NVIDIA Confirms GeForce RTX 3060 Launching February 25

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NVIDIA has confirmed that its next Ampere card, the GeForce RTX 3060, will be launching on February 25. The key word here is “launching,” as nobody seems to be sure how many graphics cards will actually be available to purchase when the midrange SKU is released in two weeks. What we do know is that the GPU has been blessed with a relatively bargain starting price of $329, and that NVIDIA won’t be producing a Founders Edition.



“Enter the GeForce RTX 3060, a $329 upgrade launching late February that brings the power of Ampere, our 2nd Generation RTX architecture, to every gamer,” NVIDIA wrote in its original announcement. “With it, you get twice the raster performance and 10x the ray tracing performance of the...

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[Uvilla]

Well, after you look for it and don't find it, you can buy an all new but old 1050 or 2060!. Okay okay , the 2060 is still nice, and I still believe the 2000 series was killed (now zombified?) Too early.

 

[magoo]

announcing in February, just in time for Christmas 2021.

 

[LazyGamer]

Well, after you look for it and don't find it, you can buy an all new but old 1050 or 2060!. Okay okay , the 2060 is still nice, and I still believe the 2000 series was killed (now zombified?) Too early.

It was unbalanced, more or less.

Basically Nvidia knew they could do better at that time, but the fabs weren't ready, so they had to dial back a bit, and RT is where that happened. GPUs still had to be faster than the previous generation at normal stuff to get sales of course.

It was a good strategy and it worked, largely because AMD was (and is) no threat when it comes to top-end performance and quality implementation of new GPU technologies, but it also wasn't going to really sell ray-tracing as a solution to the market as a whole, so the generation had a bit more 'planned obsolescence' built in that usual, so to speak.